Hand facing machine for rule, type and border



Se t. 20, 1966 J. M OWENS 3,273,370

HAND FACING MACHINE FOR RULE, TYPE AND BORDER Filed July 15, 1963 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 INVENTOR.

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HAND FACING MACHINE FOR RULE, TYPE AND BORDER Filed July 15, 1963 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 ///////////////v 2'? LE [7 26 INVENTOR BYj n-W uaww United States Patent 3,273,370 HAND FACING MACHINE FOR RULE, TYPE AND BORDER James M. Owens, 1413 Cohurg Road, Columbus, Ohio Filed July 15, 1963, Ser. No. 295,252 3 Claims. (Cl. 72-199) The machine disclosed and claimed in this application is designed to permit the facing of stripe border or typeslug by hand, without the aid of a machine that makes the stripe border or type-slug.

In the making of stripe border in many of the printing plants which have their own stripe casting machine, normally only one kind of border material is cast for the reason that usually such machines are of themselves limited to the casting of a border with one or more straight lines on the printing face of the material. Such lines may, admittedly, vary from a single hair-line to a solid bold face or a combination of two or more lines. The reasons for this limitation are that many of the stripe casting machines in use require an extra attachment to make a fancy border, this attachment is expensive, and it is time consuming to get the machine set-up for a run. This is the reason that fancy stripe border, when bought from a supply house is almost double the price of regular straight line border.

One of the most commonly used border beside the straight line border is the broken face border used for coupon boxes, dividing lines etc., by newspapers, publishing houses etc. This border is available, made as described in the previous paragraph, but in many plants, both large and small, in order to save money, such broken face border is made by hand by nicking the face edge of the straight line border on a material saw or by placing a straight line border, face down on some threaded object (like a bolt) and pounding the bottom edge of the border. Such a procedure takes time and does a very poor and uneven job.

It is the purpose of this invention to make a hand facing machine that will produce broken border and fancy face border without using an extra attachment for a stripe casting machine such as is referred to above. This is accomplished by making a straight line border on such a stripe casting machine and then using the hand facing machine described herein to produce the desired border. The broken face machine (FIG. 1), will take material up to 6 points wide, while the fancy face machine (FIG. will take material up to 24 points wide, with the changeable guide rails.

Another object of this invention is to provide a machine capable of feeding the material through the machine as the material is being faced.

Another feature of this invention is that material can be fed into the machine from either end.

Another feature of the invention is that the machine of the invention will handle any length material from a two inch piece up to as long a piece as needed.

Another feature of the invention of which the machines illustrated and described herein are embodiments is that because such machines are able to handle short lengths, such machines can take type slugs from line casting machines and can make a screened effect on the type slug or make border faces from their straight line slugs.

FIGURE 1 is a view of a hand facing machine constructed according to my invention showing the broken border unit.

FIGURE 2 is a view in horizontal section taken substantially on the line 2-2 of FIGURE 1 showing the assemblage of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 3 is a view in elevation of the unit taken substantially on the line 33 of FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 4 is a view in vertical section taken substantially on the line 4-4 of FIGURE 2 showing the guide rail removed and showing the operational function of the machine.

FIGURE 5 is a view in perspective of my hand facing machine showing the fancy face unit of my invention, employing the same theory of operation, except that it employs a replaceable facing wheel and guide rails to make it possible to make fancy border and type in various point sizes.

FIGURE 6 is a view in horizontal section taken substantially on the line 66 of FIGURE 5 with parts broken away and showing the assemblage.

FIGURE 7 is a fragmentary view in side elevation taken along line 7 of FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 8 is a view in vertical section with part of replaceable guide rail broken away showing operational function of the machine.

To make the broken border, the straight line border material 13 (FIGURE 4) is placed in material channel 2 which is between the two guide rails 1 and 3 (FIGURE 1). By turning crank 8 which is on the end of shaft 9 and held secure by key-slot 10, facing wheel 6, which is also fitted to a key-slot 10 on shaft 9, is turned. It is, of course, understood that wheel 6 is located between and supported by facing wheel hangers 5 and 7 (see FIG. 1). The turning of facing wheel 6 feeds material 13 through material channel 2 on top of combination pressure-plate and base (see FIG. 4). The teeth on the facing wheel 6 at the same time form the broken face border. The shaft 9 and the facing wheel 6 are held in the machine by crank 8 and by locking hook 11 which hinges on screw 12 (see FIGS. 2 and 3).

To make a fancy border, the apparatus shown in FIG. 5 may be used. The operator first selects the correct facing wheel 18 for the style border wanted. In FIG- URE 7 is shown locking hook 24, which hinges on 25. By raising locking book 24, shaft 20 and crank 21 (see FIG. 6), may be removed to permit the selected facing wheel 18 (see FIG. 8), to be placed on shaft 20 secured and through key-slot 22. The operator may then select removable guide rail 15 (see FIG. 5), which corresponds to the point-size of material 27 (see FIG. 8) which is to be marked with the fancy border and may insert the removable guide rail 15 in guide rail holder 14 (see FIG. 5). Now that machine changes have been made, the operator may place the material which is to be faced in material channel 16 (see FIG. 5). He may then turn crank 21. The crank 21 turns shaft 20 and facing wheel 18 (see FIG. 5). The facing wheel 18 feeds the mate rial 27 through material channel 16 in guide rail 15. The guide rail 15 is held in place by and pressure controlled by holding screw 26 (see FIG. 8). Fastened to base 23 are two facing wheel hangers 17 and 19, which jointly support the guide rail holder 14 (see FIG. 5).

It is to be understood that the above described embodiments of my invention are for the purpose of illustration only and various changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1.. An apparatus for facing line border material which comprises a base;

a pair of hangers supported on said base;

means comprising a substantially stationary horizontal guide way supported on and fixedly secured against movement relative to said base, said guide 3 4 way forming a material channel for the reception 3. The structure of claim 1 in which the hangers are of said line border material and slidably supporting supported by a horizontal base plate and extend versaid line border material; tically and perpendicularly therefrom; a facing wheel rotatably supported by said hangers in in which the hangers support between them a slotted a position above but adjacent to said channel; and 5 guide rail holder; means comprising a crank secured to said facing wheel in which the substantially stationary horizontal guide for manually rotating said facing wheel, impressing way consists of a guide rail formed with a material uniformly spaced markings upon said line border channel and inserted in the slot in the guide rail material, and advancing said line border material holder; and

through said channel as the markings are impressed in which the guide rail is held in place and pressure thereon. controlled by a holding screw. 2. The structure of claim 1 in which the material channel is formed by a pair of base members and a pair of References Cited by the Examiner spaced plates secured to said base members and each UNITED STATES PATENTS positioned on the opposite side of said aligned base members from the other; and

in which the hangers are secured to the spaced plates,

one on each side of the spaced plates from the other and on the outside of the spaced plates from the CHARLES LANHAM P'lmary Examiner material channel formed thereby. C. H. HITTSON, Assistant Examiner.

Re. 6,111 11/1874 Jones 5 2,849,903 9/1958 Dorr 72-188 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent N00 3,273,370 September 20, 1966 James Mo Owens It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent requiring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as corrected below.

lines 10, 12, 13, 14, 21, 25, 43 and 45, for

Column 1,

column 2, lines "stripe" each occurrence, read strip 43 and 44, for "shaft 20 secured and" read shaft 20 and secured a Signed and sealed this 22nd day of August 1967a L) Attest:

ERNEST W. SWIDER Attesting Officer EDWARD J. BRENNER Commissioner of Patents 

1. AN APPARATUS FOR FACING LINE BORDER MATERIAL WHICH COMPRISES A BASE; A PAIR OF HANGERS SUPPORTED ON SAID BASE; MEANS COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY STATIONARY HORIZONTAL GUIDE WAY SUPPORTED ON AND FIXEDLY SECURED AGAINST MOVEMENT RELATIVE TO SAID BASE, SAID GUIDE WAY FORMING A MATERIAL CHANNEL FOR THE RECEPTION OF SAID LINE BORDER MATERIAL AND SLIDABLY SUPPORTING SAID LINE BORDER MATERIAL; A FACING WHEEL ROTATABLY SUPPORTED BY SAID HANGERS IN A POSITION ABOVE BUT ADJACENT TO SAID CHANNEL; AND MEANS COMPRISING A CRANK SECURED TO SAID FACING WHEEL FOR MANUALLY ROTATING SAID FACING WHEEL, IMPRESSING UNIFORMLY SPACED MARKINGS UPON SAID LINE BORDER MATERIAL, AND ADVANCING SAID LINE BORDER MATERIAL THROUGH SAID CHANNEL AS THE MARKINGS ARE IMPRESSED THEREON. 